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Love of Glory and the Common Good

By Michael Palmer

Book information

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Year
1992
ISBN
0847677311, 9780847677313, 9781461639015
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
238 kB (243958 bytes)
Pages
188\0
Time added
2016-06-14 20:17:22
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More clearly than any previous work on the subject, Michael Palmer's Love of Glory and the Common Good defines the relationship between Periclean democracy and the decline in Athenian political life that followed the death of Pericles. The author elaborates upon the views of Thucydides, who saw the subsequent tyrannical rule of Alcibiades and the accompanying disintegration of Athenian political life as a logical consequence of the defects in the speeches and deeds that Pericles used to inspire the Athenian people. With careful attention to details in the order and structure of Thucydides' narrative, Palmer shows this historian as a political thinker of the first rank who deserves the same careful study accorded to Plato and Aristotle.

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